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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

Disintermediation. Disintermediation is when you sidestep everyone in the supply chain and sell directly to consumers, allowing you to potentially lower costs to your customers and have a direct relationship them as well. A reverse auction business model turns auctions upside down and has sellers present their lowest prices to buyers.

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Social CRM at the Crossroads

Venture Chronicles

Traditional CRM has existed to date in the oak paneled cigar smoke filled back room that is enterprise software, it is expensive software built for use by employees. Nothing about CRM software cries out consumer use, and that doesn’t stop with the user experience but also the pricing and support model.

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Terence Kawaja Presents “Clash of the Titans” in Social Media

VC Cafe

From media presented to you, to going to a site to get the media you are seeking. The weapon which they can utilize are: software, devices, technology around location, cloud computing, payments, and AI. There is disintermediation going on. Interactions have changed fundamentally. But as of late, web 2.0 I call it ‘science-fied.’

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

Fascinating trends are driving the boundaryless revolution presenting positive disruption opportunities. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. Why have remote, distributed teams suddenly become the smart way to build software companies? Toyota is a software company.